Binary sibling neuronal cell fate decisions in the Drosophila embryonic central nervous system are nonstochastic and require inscuteable-mediated asymmetry of ganglion mother cells

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1858-1870

  Buescher, Marita ^a   Yeo, Su Ling ^a   Udolph, Gerald ^a   Zavortink, Michael ^a   Yang, Xiaohang ^a   Tear, Guy ^b   Chia, William ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymmetric cell division; Cell fate determinant; Neural progenitor

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SIZE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 2642620243     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.12.1858     Document Type: Article

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